Oberwolfach Surgery Seminar 2012: Glossary
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This page lists the key terms which will be used during the Oberwolfach Surgery Seminar 2012. It is intended as a reference guide for reading before the meeting:
1 Topology
- Vector bundle
- Tubular neighbourhood
- Normal bundle
- Block bundle
- Microbundle
- Spherical fibration
- Thom space
- Regular neighbourhood
- Geometric Poincaré complex (GPC)
- Spivak normal fibration (SNF)
- Spanier-Whitehead dual
- Normal map Wikipedia
- Normal bordism
- Pontrjagin-Thom isomorphism
- h-cobordism
- s-cobordism
- Immersion
- Embedding
- Umkehr map Wikipedia
- Steenrod square
- Stiefel-Whitney class
- Wu class
- Elementary surgery
- Wall form
- Surgery kernel
- Surgery obstruction
2 Algebra
- Ring with involution
- Quadratic form
- Quadratic formation
- Quadratic Poincaré complex
- L-group
- Chain complex
- Chain map
- Algebraic mapping cone
- Algebraic Wu class
- Z/2-(co)homology
